US Plant Patent PP5476
Lonbalma
Carnation named Lonbalma
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 25, 2003. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP5476
- Filed
- June 25, 1983
- Granted
- May 28, 1985
- Expires
- June 25, 2003
- Assignee
- LONDE LAB PHYSIO VEGETALE
- Inventor
- BARBERET NICOLE; DUCLOUX YVES
Abstract
A new carnation cultivar particularly distinguished by the violet colored striation at the outer ends of the flower petals and a lightly pinkish background color of the petal body. These flowers are of medium size and are borne singly on long, strong stems and bloom profusely during the recurrent blooming seasons of Spring and Fall. This plant has a vigorous, upright growth habit and moderately abundant foliage.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinctive carnation cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the generally violet colored striation on the lightly pinkish background of the many petals of its medium sized blooms.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5476 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.